Privacy Policy & Cookies

Privacy Policy

Bellcourt Dental Ltd is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:
1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
4. Accurate and kept up to date.
5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
6. Kept securely.

We need to hold personal information about you in order to carry out our services safely and professionally.

This information includes:
• Name and Address
• Date of Birth
• Telephone numbers and email address
• Medical history
• Details of treatment carried out at Bellcourt Dental Ltd

How we use your data
We will contact you by email, text message, telephone or by post for your routine recalls and to confirm appointments. You may opt out of any of these contact methods.

Some of the information we hold about you may need to be shared with other dental, medical or healthcare professionals, hospitals or clinics in order to provide you with safe and appropriate treatment.

We may also need to disclose information to private dental or medical insurance schemes of which you are a member.

You have the right to request access to personal data which we hold about you. You have the right to correct inaccurate information or request erasure of information we hold about you.

We may amend our privacy policy over time.

Our full privacy policy is available on request.

Cookies

What are cookies?
We collect information about your use of our Site through cookies. Cookies are information that files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. Most major websites use cookies. The cookies we use on our site are broadly grouped into the following categories:

Analytics – We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our Site. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our Site or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited our Site once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our Site was performing and improve it without these cookies.

User Cookies – We use cookies to improve your experience by remembering your preferences so we know how you like to use our Site. Examples of this would be remembering you so that you are served with the same content or to remember you when you come back to our Site.

How can I reject or opt out of receiving Cookies?
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed or how to delete existing cookies from your hard drive visit the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org. If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium’s website.